VULGARITY: A response to Raza MPACUK Pt 1

Forgive me, but I don’t believe God conscious people should compromise decency to use such suggestive remarks as used in the title of this article in the name of wit. I believe French Connection U.K. are guilty of the same and that’s bad enough, but to be fair they never claimed to have anything remotely connected, French or otherwise, to God. 

The very notion of the above idea comes across as an affront to the sanctity of anything Islamic. The term ‘fiqh’ for want of brevity is Islamic rulings derived from principal sources of Islam. To equate such a word of such gravity within the Muslim life with such vulgarity in pursuit of wit is offensive to say the least.

Witty people do not have to or ought not to use vulgarity to prove their point or grab attention. It is a sad state of affairs that certain people do respond well to such things (which makes one wonder) and also that others play this game simply to attract attention, thereby legitimising such remarks among the impressionable. The mere fact that something is popular doesn’t necessitate we follow suit in order to remain or become popular ourselves. If something is not entirely dignified, we should refrain from such activities.

I fear sometimes we do not consider carefully our actions and its possible effects on our surroundings. As God conscious people, we should weigh up our every action, particularly those that are to be put in the public domain; and especially those that are intended to attract the public and sway their opinion in one way or another. We must learn to take responsibility of our printed comments, and be conscious of the negative effects it may cause.

Far too often, the works of popular comedians in the wider community utilise a similar style of wit to keep their audiences cackling, all the while losing something profound on the way, namely virtue. Its plain to see that they could have retained the same entertainment quality without the use of vulgar wit had they only tried. It was done in the past, why not now?

This now comes back to the main point of the article at hand, which is that we need to get our priorities in order, not be tied down with the ‘petty’ matters in life but deal with the major oppressions in the world, such as wars around the globe.

I fear you, Br. Raza, may think in the grand scheme of things my above remarks fall in the petty box. Lol.
 

I'll elaborate this in my next post insha-Allah :-)